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I've always been enamoured to Ken Peplowski's prodigous talents in the 'reed' area, and his choice of songs is second to none. His love for the American Songbook is again manifest in this his new CD project. I'm a sucker, (as a saloon singer myself) for ballads, and may I pay special kudos to Ken for his take of the lovely jazz ballad, ''When Joanna Loved Me.'' His delivery was a true exercise in Appassionata with his beautiful textures as well as his imaginative vitality which he gave to the song. He is truly 'individual.' No one plays his horn with more rhythmic variety and flexibility. His jazz ballads naturally emote a certain gentle elegiac mood that can take you to that ''special place'' as it were. It would be hard to find another artist of Ken's ilk that delivers his music with such a predominant emphasis on musical color. He's one of a kind. A powerfully dramatic artist with a bent for both the profoundly serene and the tranquil, as well as the stormy and strong.
